IEEESTEC Student project conference (2014)

Danijel Danković

The seventh student conference "IEEESTEC 7th Student project conference" was held on November 27, 2014 at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš (http://ieee.elfak.ni.ac.rs/). The conference was organized by the student branch of IEEE SB Niš, EESTEC LC Niš and Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, in cooperation with IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section, IEEE Electron Devices / Solid-State Circuits Chapter and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapter.

At the meeting of IEEE SB Niš and EESTEC LC Niš held at the end of March 2014, the initiative for organizing the conference "IEEESTEC 7th Student project conference" was supported. The IEEE Section Serbia-Montenegro has supported this initiative.

We sent a call for the conference to authors of papers from previous conferenc, all student organizations in Serbia, student branches of IEEE, members of the IEEE Section Serbia and Montenegro. The total number of received papers is 48 (in the field of: electronics, microelectronics, telecommunications, automatics, power engineering, computing and informatics, physics, student mobility etc.). All papers have passed the review phase, with a minimum of five reviews for each paper. In the review process, 38 teachers and assistants of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš helped us. Based on the received reviews, the three best rated papers were selected:

First place
Paper: Programming LED cubes using Raspberry microcomputers
Authors: A. Kostić, D. Aleksić
Institution: Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade - Astrophysics, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Niš

Second place
Paper: Wordarium - an application for interactive learning of foreign words
Authors: P. Antić, P. Živanović, M. Janković
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

Third place
Paper: Optimization and scaling of energy of the 3D structure of self-organized magnetic particles
Authors: M. Dašić
Institution: University of Belgrade, Institute of Physics, Laboratory for Computer Science in Science

In the category of “The Best Practical Realization”, and based on the decision of the Organizing Committee of the conference awards were given:

First place
Paper: Realization of an active filter for application in electrocardiographic signal processing
Authors: A. Milošević, D. Stanković, S. Zvijerac
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

Second place
Paper: System for controlling working hours and access to laboratories realized on the Raspberry Pi platform
Authors: N. Živković, M. Milojević, N. Nikolić, B. Majkić, S. Stošović
Institution: VTŠ Apps Team, The Higher Technical School of Professional Education Niš

Third place
a) Paper: WEB light control in smart home
Authors: J. Krstić, D. Stajić
Institution: Electro-Technical school “Nikola Tesla”, Niš

b) Paper: Designing a system for counting visitors in real time using the TSOP sensor
Authors: M. Mitić, N. Krstić, Đorđe Veličković
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš

On the basis of the received papers, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Nis published the Proceedings "IEEESTEC 7th Student project conference", ISBN: 978-86-6125-114-6. Editors of the Proceedings are: prof. Dr Ninoslav Stojadinović, prof. Dr Bratislav Milovanović, prof. Dr Vera Marković, prof. Dr Goran S. Đorđević and doc. Dr Danijel Danković. The conference was organized by the Organizing Committee consisting of: Doc. Dr Danijel Danković, President of the conference and Dušan Vučković, Darko Todorović and Miloš Marjanović, Vice-Presidents of the Conference. The secretariat of the conference consisted students from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš: Damir Nešić, Saša Dević, Nikola Vučić, Sandra Ilijin, Miroslav Božić, Željko Kalezić, Nikola Simić, Dragana Dimitrijević, Đorđe Veličković, Miloš Mitić and Neda Dinić. The Proceedings was technically edited by Miloš Marjanović.

The conference was officially opened by the Vice-rector of the University of Niš, prof. Dr Zoran Nikolić, Dean of the Electronic Faculty in Niš, prof. Dr Dragan Janković and Vice-Dean of the Electronic Faculty in Niš, prof. Dr Zoran Perić.

The best paper in both categories were presented verbally. All papers (including awarded) were presented as poster papers in the hall of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš. In addition to posting posters in four-hour work, the authors also used PowerPoint presentations, simulation on the computer, their models and finished products/projects. The authors themselves selected the most interesting work:

First place
Paper: Smart hand
Authors: J. Krstić, L. Petrović, M. Mihajlović, M. Dimitrijević, M. Radomirović, S. Krstić, R. Mitić
Institution: Electro-Technical “Nikola Tesla”, Niš

By the decision of the Organizing Committee of the IEEESTEC Conference Best Conference Conference, proposed for the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2015 (http://www.ieeer8.org/category/student-activities/awards-and-contests/student-paper-contest) was selected :

First place
Paper: Apply digital filters to cryptography
Authors: M. Petrović
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš

All authors received the IEEESTEC Conference promotional material: a collection of papers, a disc, a block and a bag. The best papers were awarded with diplomas and awards, gifts from friends of the conference.

The participants of the conference were from the following institutions: Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš, Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Knjaževac Gymnasium, Technical School “Rade Metalac”, Leskovac, Electro-Technical School “Nikola Tesla” Niš, Ei PCB Factory Niš, IRC ALFATEC Niš, Universitatea Politehnica di Bucuresti, Tennessee Tech University - TTU,The Higher Technical School of Professional Education Niš.

We hope that next year this conference will be even better organized and even more massive.